Contents

South Asian Nuclear Crisis: India, Pakistan, and a Timeline of Nuclear Weapons Development in South Asia

De-Alerting: A First Step (Arjun Makhijani)

IEER’s Disarmament Plan

Pure Fusion Weapons? (Hisham Zerriffi and Arjun Makhijani)

Science for the Critical Masses: The Nuclear Numbers

The Morality of Nuclear Deterrence: An Evaluation by Pax Christi Bishops in the United States

A Chronology of Nuclear Threats

Dear Arjun

It Pays to Increase Your Jargon Power (Dr. Egghead)

Atomic Puzzler

Published October 22, 1998This is a special double issue of Science for Democratic Action (Volume 6, Number 4 and Volume 7, Number 1). For selected articles from this issue in other languages, visit our international newsletter Energy & Security Issues #6 and #7